Monthly Archives: May 2010

Stanley Kubrick is Dead

Tom Sachs’ tape measure for the film buff carpenter set. $250 at the artist website.

Update

Apologies about lack of posts. I’ve been too busy going to the beach, sailing, waking up at noon, and eating In-N-Out burgers on my vacation all week. In the meantime I leave you with this.

Yoda Cloud

Michael Lonergan snapped this Yoda shaped cloud that he spotted from the Vancouver airport.

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A Conversation with Conan O’Brien at Google

Google hosted a talk with Conan O’Brien (and a surprise guest!).

Michael Jackson Tried to Buy Marvel

70 facts you didn’t know about Marvel.

11. The word “sex” was concealed in the illustrations of New X-Men issue 118 at least 18 times – one almost every page.

24. Marvel once owned the rights to the word zombie.

26. The writer Tom Wolfe once appeared in the pages of the Incredible Hulk.

Toilet Waterfall

An unusual 100 meter long and 5 meter high waterfall wall made of (hopefully clean) toilets, sinks, and bidets was built for some ceramics fair in China. View more photos of the insanity here.

Chinese Toy Jewelry

Ena Macana’s China Collection features a line of jewelry and accessories using toys made in China.

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Made in China

I can’t seem to locate the origin of this popular photograph that went viral few months ago. Anyway, don’t forget the first step: Cut a hole in the box.

Multi-Purpose Shovel

When Moye shared this promotional video of a shovel developed by the Chinese military, my immediate thoughts were 1) this sounds like the most boring YouTube video ever; 2) Moye is where unfunny happens; 3) it’s past midnight and I’ve seen everything else on the Internet, so I might as well watch this dumb shovel video. It turned out to be the most amazing 8 minutes, 47 seconds of my life. As one YouTube commenter said, “better than ipad!!”

I’m filing this under “WANT.”

We Need More Cowbells!

Upload any mp3 and add more of what it’s missing: More cowbells and Christopher Walken, obvi.

Here’s Build Me Up Buttercup with more cowbells and Walken.

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